This thread is for those people who love to garden whether planting or viewing. In the old forum we posted pics of our flowers and if anyone had any gardening questions we tried to help. It was opened to anyone who wanted to come and visit or offer tips or maybe answer a question posted by another person.
Gardening is my therapy :smile:
Dahlia
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3266.jpg)
Asiatic Lily
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3255.jpg)
Ice Plant
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3212.jpg)
Bleeding Heart Vine
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3274.jpg)
Coriopsis
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3170.jpg)
Welcome aboard SeeN: Glad to see you. Great pics
Charisma Rose
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Quote from: mageepet on June 04, 2009, 11:54:41 PM
Charisma Rose
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I have a very small raised bed garden plot. So small that all I have room for is about 7 or 8 tomato plants. So naturally I have to plant in the same spot every year. Does anyone have a cure for nematodes?
I don't know how I got that same post up there twice!
Hi Bo D, your question sent me running to Google and then to one of my gardening sites. I posted a link below that should help you. For those of us that don't have any idea what a Nematoad is, there is a good description of what it is. I hope this helps. Others may have had first hand experience with their control and can give you further insight.
http://cestanislaus.ucdavis.edu/files/227.htm (http://cestanislaus.ucdavis.edu/files/227.htm)
Quote from: mageepet on June 05, 2009, 09:23:15 AM
I don't know how I got that same post up there twice!
Just gifted I guess magee! :biggrin:
Quote from: seen2much on June 05, 2009, 09:26:47 AM
Hi Bo D, your question sent me running to Google and then to one of my gardening sites. I posted a link below that should help you. For those of us that don't have any idea what a Nematoad is, there is a good description of what it is. I hope this helps. Others may have had first hand experience with their control and can give you further insight.
http://cestanislaus.ucdavis.edu/files/227.htm (http://cestanislaus.ucdavis.edu/files/227.htm)
Thanks!!!!!!! But the primary advice in your link called for fallowing for one, preferably two, years! I don't know if I can go without tomatoes for that long!
I read somewhere that using crab meal helps. Has anyone ever heard of that?
Bo, could you put your tomatoes in pots for the 2 years and let the ground fallow. You could put the pots in the same spot, just not in the ground. or around the yard wherever you have room. I do alot of pot gardening now. It is easier on my back.
I picked up a couple of cool-looking plants yesterday called Sun Parasol... suppose to bloom all summer. Hope so!
Here's a link to what they look like:
http://www.sunparasol.net/gardeners-varieties/originalgroup/darkred1.html
Are yours dark red like that? Those are really pretty! The flower kind of reminds me of a balloon flower, (I believe that is what it is called.) Be sure and take pics of it!
Yes... a couple of deep reds... Hope I can find my little trellis... It may have disappeared into moving hell, though.
Damn moving hell :rant:
Ok, I just have to ask. Has anyone else moved and lost things completely, even though you went back to the first place to look for them? I mean they just disappeared, whoosh!
Yes... my garden shovel. The rake is where it should be, but the shovel... gone.
I think what probably happened in our case, is that we start off very organized, putting things in special marked boxes... and then the last couple of days, when we're tired and cranky, we just start throwing stuff wherever we can find a place to toss it... There's no telling where that little shovel ended up... Maybe in a box of old clothes or something that will never be opened.
At work, people are always stealing my stuff! Last time I was off two weeks with the broken wrist, they stripped my cart clean.. If you ever in your life think you will own a flashlight in my house, wrong again. Someone will always come and get it. I think males passing by in the street must hear the siren song of my flashlights and come and steal them. If they are ever found, there will be no batteries in them. I need them so I can sneak out to the garden and take after dark pics of my flowers!
I use my flashlights as a carrying case for dead batteries...LOL
I have new plants I bought at Enid yesterday and I need to get busy planting them if I can find my garden gloves and spade :rolleyes:
Quote from: mcgonser on June 06, 2009, 11:02:57 AM
Ok, I just have to ask. Has anyone else moved and lost things completely, even though you went back to the first place to look for them? I mean they just disappeared, whoosh!
I have noticed that I always find things in the last place I look.
;)
LOL!! Ain't that the truth Bo: It never fails. :biggrin:
Is that because you don't look anymore after you find it?
My flowers are somewhat battered by the heavy rain and hail, but oh so happy about the moisture!
Quote from: mageepet on June 08, 2009, 03:32:16 PM
Is that because you don't look anymore after you find it?
:biggrin:
I get daily tips on gardening, sewing, etc. I thought this one was a really easy and pretty project. Below is the link for making garden towers. The site also shows a pic of some that were made by the author.
http://www.diyideas.com/quickprojects/Outdoors/gardentowers_1.html (http://www.diyideas.com/quickprojects/Outdoors/gardentowers_1.html)
I have some Daisies and Dahlias that are blooming. I will have to take pics to post.
Eventually I will take pics to post, too... but I am so darn lazy about photos anymore. I use to photograph everything... now I cannot be bothered. Old Age-itis, I guess.
I do enjoy looking at them, though.
I am in the tween stage now. Tween blooms...just a whole bunch of buds getting ready to bloom.
Pictures Seen2, pictures ...where are they! Have fun at Dogie days whatever that is !
Here ya go Magee.....
Gazania Daisy
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3295.jpg)
Indian Blanket, Coriopsis & Ice Plant
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3301.jpg)
Asiatic Lilys
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3299.jpg)
Purslane
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3303.jpg)
Dahlias
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3298.jpg)
They are so pretty, thank you very much!
Seen2much, those are beautimous!
Thank you. I'll post more as they bloom. :)
I do hope to see some pics of other poster's flowers, plants and gardens.
how do you post pictures on here
Quote from: muggy on June 12, 2009, 05:33:26 PM
how do you post pictures on here
If you're using the full post form, you can click on the image button which is the second one from the left. In between that tags that it puts in there, you put the hyperlink to your image.
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If you want, you can quote this post and see how it's done. Hope that helps. :)
I stupidly posted animal pictures here, and have moved them now to the love our four legged babies.
I noticed that and didn't think anything of it until now that you brought it up...LOL
I did buy a couple of small plants that those pics would have went with. The plants are called Pink ***** Toes. When one blooms I'll post a pic of it. :swish: :flower3:
Good grief I've just discovered a treasure trove of smilys. This is gonna be funnnnnnnn!
Pink ***** Toes, are you sure they aren't some kind of sex flowers!
I hear that years ago in Salina, there used to be a dancing place called "The Purple Pussycat." A woman at work (who has high regard for her own moral values) was chastising me about where I should find men once. For she thought I went to bars and picked up men... like I had time for that while working multiple jobs and raising the prince. She told me of dancing at the purple pussycat... I tease her to this day about dancing at the purple *****! She quickly reminds me that it is not the correct name of the place.
Anyway after all that b.s, your flowers made me think of that!
And you are reminding me of one of my fave movies, Serial Mom. "*****... willow."
LOL.
I think my ***** Toes are dying :(
I have a mystery plant/flower that has come up in my garden. I'm sure I planted it last year, but the tag must have gotten thrown away with the old mulch or some other way.
Can anyone identify it? I posted a close up and full plant views.
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3321.jpg)
(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h86/cdmitch/Plants%20and%20Flowers/IMG_3323.jpg)
Whatever it is, that's quite a unique blossom. Kind of reminds me of passion flower.
It's a dainty little yellow flower. I might try one of my gardening sites to see if I can find it. I just thought maybe someone on this forum might be familiar with it.
It is really pretty but I haven't the faintest idea what it is!
The leaf kinda looks like basil, doesn't it?
what ever it is it is pretty :biggrin:
There you go, it is the
Yellow
basil leafed
prett flower
LOL....I can always count on you Magee.
I found out what my mystery flower is! It is St. John's Wort. I have clearly identified it with a tag.
and so it is st. johns wort! I bet you won't forget again, even if you don't have the tag.
My flowers are a shambles after the hail last night. I do have some orange daylilies blooming, the trumpet vine and the coneflowers are starting too, but nothing pictureworthy yet.
St John's wort (pronounced /seɪntˈdʒɒnzwərt/, or spelling pronunciations in /-wɔrt/)[1] is the plant species Hypericum perforatum, also known as Tipton's Weed or Klamath weed, but, with qualifiers, is used to refer to any species of the genus Hypericum. Therefore, H. perforatum is sometimes called Common St John's wort to differentiate it. The species of Hypericum have been placed by some in the family Hypericaceae, but more recently have been included in the Clusiaceae.[2] Approximately 370 species of the genus Hypericum exist worldwide with a native geographical distribution including temperate and subtropical regions of North America, Europe, Asia Minor, Russia, India, and China. St. John's wort is today most widely known as an herbal treatment for depression. According to the Cochrane Review, a key resource in evidence-based medicine, "the available evidence suggests that the hypericum extracts tested in the included trials are superior to placebo in patients with major depression; are similarly effective as standard antidepressants; and have fewer side effects than standard antidepressants."[3]
Well that plant should make me happy :razz:
It's planted next to the catnip, so me and my kitty cats can go to our "happy" place. LOL
My pink ***** Toes are dying. I'm not sure what's going on. I've never grown them before so I don't know any tricks to try. I have went by the tag, but sometimes this will happen. When we go to OKC, I'll stop in Yukon and see if the Lowe's there has any. I thought they were neat little plants.
Now I need to go start the water before it gets too hot.
a friend bought me a Isotoma Blue Star it has no instructions with it does anyone know anything about it
An abundance of sky blue star-shaped 3/8" blooms emerge in late spring and persist until early fall. Medium green foliage spreads to form a dense, low mat.
Tolerates moderately heavy foot traffic (3 or more times daily), perfect as a lawn substitute or for fern or rock gardens or between stepping stones. When planting between stepping stones with narrow gaps (or in other narrow rows), you can separate each plant into 2-4 smaller plants and plant them closer together - this will fill in more uniformly and efficiently.
Excellent for planting over lilies and other bulbs - it shades their roots without interfering with their growth and adds another layer of color. Evergreen in warmer climates, semi-evergreen in colder climates. Prefers moist soil. Moderate to fast growth rate.
Similar to Pratia pedunculata and other plants commonly sold as Blue Star Creeper but shorter (more resistant to being stepped on) and more symmetric flowers. Spacing: 8-12 in. Mature height 3" (flatter in full sun, fluffier in partial shade).
Full sun Part sun
Zones: 5/6-10
thank you so much for your help :)
I gotta look that one up! It sounds like a pretty plant.
(http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:WEAKbUNWH3EPCM:http://www.peoriagardens.com/images/perennials/LaurentiaBlueStarCreeper.jpg)
Ooops! I think I probably posted this in the wrong place yesterday. Anyway ... here it is again ....
This is an amazing plant - Evening Primrose. I have had them growing in my back yard for years. (They seed themselves.)
Every evening, just as the sun goes down, the blooms start popping open so quickly, it's as if they're spring-loaded. Sometimes, the whole plant shakes! Then the next day all the blooms from the previous night fall off, and the cycle starts again for the next night's show. I have some that are six-feet tall.
They do get rather ugly in the fall though.
(http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/assets/organicweeds/lg%20fl%20evening%20primrose.jpg)
http://www.altnature.com/gallery/Evening_Primrose.htm (http://www.altnature.com/gallery/Evening_Primrose.htm)
Bo: I have never seen those: Very interesting. If I can get some seed next year, I will plant some.
Quote from: mcgonser on June 19, 2009, 03:13:34 PM
Bo: I have never seen those: Very interesting. If I can get some seed next year, I will plant some.
You might want to plant them in early fall. That way you can have flowers next summer. They are biennial.
But I wouldn't plant them in the front yard. They do get ugly and make a mess.
They look very pretty and would be fun to watch. I've never been able to get Primrose to grow. Are they all tall plants or just this variety?
I will see if I can find some seeds for this one and try again. I think I can squeeze one or two in the garden by the back fence. ;)
Quote from: Bo D on June 19, 2009, 03:45:35 PM
You might want to plant them in early fall. That way you can have flowers next summer. They are biennial.
But I wouldn't plant them in the front yard. They do get ugly and make a mess.
Thanks for the tip Bo, I will let you know how it turns out.